All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 17 2016 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine, headquartered workers’ compensation specialist, has appointed Adam Levesque as safety management consultant to provide safety training services and advice to MEMIC’s customer...
Oct 13 2016 // Winslow, Maine, officials have voted at the first of two scheduled hearings to change the town’s rules on dangerous dogs after a woman was hurt and her dog was killed over the summer during an attack by two other...
Oct 10 2016 // A building where six people died in one of the deadliest fires in Maine in decades was unsafely operated as an illegal rooming house, a prosecutor said in a closing statement in the trial of the building’s...
Oct 5 2016 // An apartment house where six people died in a fire had been neglected during foreclosure and lacked alternative exits, allowing several bedrooms to become “death traps” when the blaze spread upstairs, a...
Oct 3 2016 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited, headquartered in Chicago, Ill., has acquired the assets of Norton Insurance Agency and Norton Financial Services Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not...
Sep 26 2016 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine, headquartered workers’ compensation specialty insurer, has promoted Scott Meinke to executive underwriter for the Atlantic region. Meinke initially joined MEMIC in 2014 as a senior...
Sep 6 2016 // Maine Bureau of Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa has denied Progressive’s request to raise auto insurance rates for new customers above the age of 65.Cioppa stated in the August 10 ruling that the move would have...
Aug 19 2016 // Brown, Holmes & Milliken Agency, an independent insurance agency based in Ellsworth, Maine, has hired Larry Freeman to join its sales staff. In his new role, Freeman will service commercial accounts along with selling...
Aug 16 2016 // Maine Bureau of Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa has denied Progressive’s request to raise auto insurance rates for new customers above the age of 65.Cioppa stated in the August 10 ruling that the move would have...
Aug 15 2016 // Cross Insurance, a Bangor, Maine, headquartered insurance agency, has hired Christopher S. Hersey as vice president and treasurer of its parent company, Cross Financial Corp.. In his new role, Hersey will be responsible...
Aug 11 2016 // Summit Natural Gas of Maine has agreed to pay the state a $307,000 fine for safety violations, including a potentially catastrophic gas leak in Augusta, Maine. The state Public Utilities Commission said the violations stem...
Aug 8 2016 // The drought that has taken hold in the Northeast, from Maine to Pennsylvania, is being driven by a second year of below-average rainfall. Though not as dire as the West Coast drought of five-years running, the dry, hot...
Jul 27 2016 // At Lavoie’s Farm in New Hampshire, beans and corn haven’t broken through the ground yet and fields of strawberries are stunted.The drought that has taken hold in the Northeast is especially felt at John...
Jul 22 2016 // A landmark in Maine where thousands of people have pledged their everlasting love to another with padlocks has been deemed a public safety risk and will be removed.The Portland Press Herald reported that the city’s...
Jul 20 2016 // Maine’s Cross Insurance reported it has acquired another leading Maine insurance agency, Sargent, Tyler & West in Bangor, and its Bucksport branch office, Roland Grindle Insurance Agency.Sargent, Tyler & West...
Jul 20 2016 // Maine’s Clark Insurance has added four employees in its Portland office.Nicholas Jobin of Westbook has been hired as an associate Aacount manager in the Business Insurance Services Department. Jobin is a graduate of...
Jul 8 2016 // The family of a 17-year-old Maine girl who was killed in a Halloween-themed hayride accident is suing the owner of the farm where the crash occurred.The lawsuit against Harvest Hill Farms owner Peter Buldoc follows the...
Jul 1 2016 // State police say two 15-year-old boys stole eight cars and caused $50,000 in damage to some of the vehicles and the Litchfield Fairgrounds.The Kennebec Journal reported that police say the teenagers, of Farmingdale and...
Jun 29 2016 // A lack of adequate liability insurance has put an end to a project honoring military veterans by flying American flags on utility poles in Maine’s smallest town. The Kennebec Journal reports Randolph Fire Association...
May 18 2016 // Aetna plans to offer individual plans in part of Maine on the Affordable Care Act’s health exchanges, bringing more competition to the market. A filing with the state indicates Aetna will join Community Health...